OTTO FRISCH

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• OTTO FRISCH (noun)
  The noun OTTO FRISCH has 1 sense:

1. British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)

  Familiarity information: OTTO FRISCH used as a noun is very rare.

• OTTO FRISCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)

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Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frisch; Otto Frisch; Otto Robert Frisch

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)